From hospitals, makes this incredibly challenging. but the daily toll on civilians in gaza, particularly on children, is far too high. to the uk and the former head of the post office, paula vennells, is handing back her cbe after more than a million people called for her to be stripped of the honour for her role in the horizon scandal. vicki young has more. it was an insult which added to their injury. new year s honours list. a moment depicted in the recent drama about the post office scandal. paula vennells has got the cbe. you rejoking.! services to the post office. today, it was all very different for paula vennells as she caved to mounting public pressure to hand back the honour. in a statement, she said.
Settler expansion, demolition, all make it harder for israel to achieve a lasting peace and security. figs a lasting peace and security. as always, you can read more on that and all the other stories we report here on bbc news on the bbc website. now to story that s dominated the headlines. the former head of the uk post office, paula vennells, is handing back her cbe as a result of the fallout from the faulty it scandal which saw hundreds of sub postmasters wrongly prosecuted. after an itv drama about the scandal last week, more than a million people have signed a petition calling for her honour to be revoked. meanwhile, the government is considering ways to speed up justice for the hundreds of post office branch managers who were affected. here s our deputy political editor, vicky young. it was an insult which added to their injury. new year s honours list. a moment depicted in the recent drama about the post office scandal. paula vennells has got the cbe. you re joking.! services to the post office.
The man who was head of the royal mail, which owned the post office at a time when sub postmasters were being wrongly prosecuted, has tonight expressed his heartfelt sympathies to those who he says were so wronged by the tragic miscarriages ofjustice. but adam crozier says he had no involvement in the horizon it issue during his time at the royal mail. his comments come after the former head of the post office, paula vennells, decided to hand back her cbe as a result of the fallout from the faulty it scandal which saw hundreds of sub postmasters wrongly prosecuted. more thani million people have signed a petition calling for her honour to be revoked. here s our deputy political editor, vicki young. it was an insult which added to their injury. new year s honours list. a moment depicted in the recent drama about the post office scandal. paula vennells has got the cbe. you re joking.! services to the post office. today, it was all very different for paula vennells as she caved to mounting public pressure to hand
James dorsey, thank you forjoining us on the programme today. mr; us on the programme today. m pleasure. to the uk, and the former head of the post office, paula vennells, is handing back her cbe after more than a million people called for her to be stripped of the honour for her role in the horizon scandal. she led the organisation for seven years, while it repeatedly denied there was anything wrong with the it system, and continued to pursue prosecutions against hundreds of sub postmasters. here s our deputy political editor, vicki young. it was an insult which added to their injury. new year s honours list. a moment depicted in the recent drama about the post office scandal. paula vennells has got the cbe. you re joking.! services to the post office. today, it was all very different for paula vennells as she caved to mounting public pressure to hand back the honour. in a statement, she said.
And no one was injured. you re live with bbc news. the former post office boss paula vennells has said she will hand back her cbe with immediate effect amid the fallout of the horizon it scandal. in her statement, ms vennells said she was truly sorry for the devastation caused to the subpostmasters and their families. their lives, she added, were torn apart by being wrongly accused and wrongly prosecuted as a result of the horizon system. the justice secretary alex chalk said the government is actively considering introducing a new law to quash the convictions of subpostmasters caught up in the post office horizon it scandal. here s our deputy political editor, vicki young. it was an insult which added to their injury. new year s honours list. a moment depicted in the recent drama about the post office scandal. paula vennells has got the cbe. you re joking.! services to the post office.